Dostoyevsky's " Бесы"(The Possess ed)

[helena goscilo]

Olga,

I hope you meant 'unquestionably' instead of 'unquestioningly', for the
latter indicates a kneejerk, unthinking choice, with which, I assume, you
would not wish to be associated.

Having compared the Maguire translation to the original with some care and
found the English rendition precise and often inspired in its choices, I'm
curious what you find 'especially' better in the Pevear-Volkhonsky version,
though I'm fully aware that they are 'in' right now (despite a couple of
surprising flubs in their *Anna Karenina*).

Helena Goscilo

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Olga Meerson <meersono at georgetown.edu>wrote:

> I unquestioningly prefer the Pevear and Volokhonsky, for any Dostoevsky but
> Besy especially. But a very useful one is also Robert Maguire's.
> Olga Meerson, author of Dostoevsky's Taboos, etc.
>
>
> Helena Goscilo
> Professor and Chair
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>
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> "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole
> book."
> Friedrich Nietzsche
>

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